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| Sticky notes being able to reference UIDs as well as headcodes Today at 14:32 #160170 | |
Robyn
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Title says it all. I'm currently playing the various heavily loco-hauled timetables and pilot engines are proving an issue because they all have the same headcode, plus empty trains being shunted by the pilot ALSO have the same headcode! So a way for me to reference a UID in the stick note so I know what's going where and when: eg "$XXXXX" would be extremely useful! And I can't figure out how to do it, starting to think it isn't possible in the current game! 7-5-5, closing of comment Log in to reply |
| Sticky notes being able to reference UIDs as well as headcodes Today at 14:37 #160171 | |
Dick
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You can put as much text as you like in a sticky note, it just wont be clickable. Just put the headcode followed by the information you require.
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| Sticky notes being able to reference UIDs as well as headcodes Today at 17:56 #160175 | |
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Robyn
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Dick in post 160171 said:You can put as much text as you like in a sticky note, it just wont be clickable. Just put the headcode followed by the information you require.That's not what I asked, Currently, if you enter a headcode into a sticky note that is valid with the timetable. It turns into a hyperlink TO that trains timetable, BUT it only works with headcodes NOT UIDs And for example Carlisle 1979 has the pilot engine headcodes 0T01 0T02 0T03 and 5T01 5T02 5T03 all with about 200 different iterations. So it I type in '5T01' into a sticky note to see what I need to clear and prepare for shunting, AND there isn't already a 5T01 OR MULTIPLE 5T01s already in the simulation the '5T01' in the sticky note will link to one of 200 '5T01s' in the timetable. And if I enter the UID instead eg: 5T01B it still just sees 5T01 and picks at random which one to display to me. I have tried putting a '$' which is the way simulations denote UIDs and it breaks the hyperlink (i.e. there isn't one) So, what I am asking is for you to be able to specify a UID in a sticky note AND the hyperlink to correctly direct you TO THAT TRAIN with the given UID. 7-5-5, closing of comment Log in to reply |
| Sticky notes being able to reference UIDs as well as headcodes Today at 18:11 #160176 | |
bill_gensheet
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Has been requested by me under Mantis 24198. That was in 2019 though. Log in to reply |
| Sticky notes being able to reference UIDs as well as headcodes Today at 19:00 #160177 | |
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Dick
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Robyn in post 160175 said:Dick in post 160171 said:I suggest you read carefully what you wrote.You can put as much text as you like in a sticky note, it just wont be clickable. Just put the headcode followed by the information you require.That's not what I asked, Log in to reply |
| Sticky notes being able to reference UIDs as well as headcodes Today at 19:33 #160178 | |
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Robyn
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Dick in post 160177 said:Robyn in post 160175 said:???Dick in post 160171 said:I suggest you read carefully what you wrote.You can put as much text as you like in a sticky note, it just wont be clickable. Just put the headcode followed by the information you require.That's not what I asked, 7-5-5, closing of comment Log in to reply |
| Sticky notes being able to reference UIDs as well as headcodes Today at 19:45 #160179 | |
DonRiver
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Very good suggestion (and it is perfectly clear what you were asking for btw). I find in some circumstances an ambiguous headcode will open the relevant timetable when it's in the berth where the train is (not a sticky note though). For instance, 1980s Exeter timetables where there's multiple 2B84s on the panel at the same time - 2B84 at the departure end of the platform opens the correct timetable, 2B84 at the other end of the same platform is likely to open the wrong one. More generally, if you have the timetable for the main train that the locos/vans are attaching and detatching to, the links from there will work correctly - so if 0A40 detaches from 1A40 and a different 0A40 attaches, the links in 1A40's timetable open the correct 0A40 for each one. At least until the activity has taken place and the activity is no longer shown on 1A40's timetable. I'm sure in the relatively recent past the timetable links were a bit more indiscriminate - and not much before that the timetables had no hyperlinks at all - so it's an area where good progress has been made! (named for the one in Tasmania, not in Russia) Log in to reply |
| Sticky notes being able to reference UIDs as well as headcodes Today at 20:35 #160180 | |
postal
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Perhaps it should be remembered that the TTs where there are lots of trains running round with the same TD reflect what was the operational practice at the time. The signaller back then had to keep track of the various trains using things like Post-It notes stuck on the panel. The current SimSig Post-It notes when used in legacy TTs are no different in that it is up to the signaller to add the information needed to run the job which may or may not be a TD.
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